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Description: | A Roman Colchester Two-Piece Brooch made of cast copper alloy. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The caps each have a small central hole, of which one is incomplete. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The centre of the upper edge of the wings has an integral loop which is support a fragment of wire which was originally the horizontal bar of the spring. The bow head is hump-like, and in section is semi-circular. The bow head is decorated with a groove which tapers in width as it continues down the bow. The bow gradually tapers to a broken edge. This break is quite recent. The surface of the brooch has a mid grey/green patina. The brooch is otherwise in a fair condition, but is incomplete. The brooch measures 24.05mm across the wings and 36.84mm long. It weighs 9.36g.
The brooch is a Polden Hill type, which probably dates to the mid 1st century into the 2nd (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries). Bayley and Butcher go on to comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches is most dense in the West Midlands. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 50
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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